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Lot of stuff has been added to the site https://www.enginemachineservice.com/ems/index.php

Closed the shop but not retired, I work full time at a dealership and the wife and I continue to offer parts for these, just changed the name. Dads Engine Parts LLC Dad

I do, Finish bore should be 3.607 ( that should help your machinist) Pistons Dad

89 should have the vin stamped in the back of block small pad under head, The head should be a jet valve hydraulic lifter head. Pistons if stock should have a 54 cast in top, check block deck close for cracks, off head bolt holes and water holes, have a machine shop Wet magnaflux it. Dad

If you want a complete head like that I can probably match that price, ( or close $525.00) might even be the same head. I don't push them since the exhaust valves are not stellite faced ( some companies will tell you they have turbo valves in them, but I suspect different due to the cost of the valves ) You will need to add Zinc cam break in additive to any of the heads and break in the cam at fast rpm- I don't like the solid cam pin, and have seen at times they are a bit short, barely getting into the distributor gear. OEM pin is a spring pin. My heads are China heads, same heads I have been using for over at least 12 years now. I suggest bare head and build up your head if it's in your budget. Dad

Wiseco pistons run about .003 clearance now so noise is no longer a factor. the turn around is the issue. I'm slowly getting them in stock ( have 020 at moment) I ran hyper pistons in my car from 2007-2019 slowly adding mods. 16g wheel, Trilogy injetors, walbro pump, GM maft translator eventually running 22 lbs of boost. When I tore it back apart I fount cracked piston ring lands in #3 cylinder, head cracked same cylinder between valves but did not leak coolant. Head gasket was perfect ( ran stock head bolts) Since then I have wiseco pistons, arp studs etc. The hyper pistons IMHO are fine for a stock build but if adding mods to increase HP they will eventually fail at least in these cars. Dad

I will add that we used one of those little plastic body push pins with a couple washers to fix the button on our pedals. just need to fit the hole. Most common problem why cruise quit working. Dad

Minimal vibration- UNLESS you are rebuilding and replaced a connecting rod, when I was offering rebuilt rod sets I would purchase 200 rod cores at a time, I found variances of up to 40 grams in weight. If you are running original rods you should be fine but if replacing one I suggest getting the set balanced. Dad

Well when you need parts I'm here. Dads Engine Parts. Dad

Since you said you tightened up the balance chain I suspect balance shaft bearing failure. That is what comes to mind first. The timing chain has some slack until oil pressure pushes out the tensioner. If indeed it's knocking you will do more damage by running it. Dad

Interested in what you used? I have to pull my dash because it's clogged somwhere in there.

Could toss some on my site. Dad

Coldscrip is my other son. He did buy a red one, had 2 cars built 1 later he did restore the red one. I know we picked one up in indiana, thought the other one was from ohio

Airdam was red, cars was and is black. Dad

Yeah he parked, moved to couple storage areas, plan now is get it back up running and driveable, Dad

I sold that back in 2021 owned it 10 years Dad

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Oil runs thru the rocker shafts, so it may not be the head, was the block resurfaced without the front cover attached? Dad Dads Engine Parts

You can remove oil pan, valve cover. Pressure test cooling system, Is there any oil in the coolant? Is it burning coolant out exhaust also?. Was block magnafluxed for cracks? Front cover area can be suspect, the throttle body/ intake has coolant running through it. only a few areas where coolant can leak into oil. Dad

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I can't tell you if the fan location is the same. Dad

I stock the pads, https://www.dadsengineparts.com Dad

I have them hosted on my website, just can't get them showing on here unless you click the link, I got them to show but this sites limits to 500k Dad

Exceeding the 500K limit on pics, any way around that?

Hello Gang, I still have my photos and m trying to get them to show up in my write up on Engine rebuild. Changed to https but they only show if you click on the picture. What am I doing wrong.? Here is the Topic Dad